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Eastern Michigan University budget woes prompt cutting of 4 sports programs
ytownchief22:
MAC is in trouble. I always laugh when people say YSU should join.
YSUGO:
I laugh at how we still act like YSU is way to good to be a MAC member. News flash: The MAC is not going to break up. Playing D1 football is where it’s at and that is not ever changing. We won 4 championships in FCS and has gotten us nothing but another side of a stadium that sits nearly half empty and we are in a football conference that we have no rivalries and a basketball conference that is a bottom feeder in the eyes of the NCAA.
When are you football diehards gonna see that people don’t care that our conference is the SEC of FCS and the last time we we were truly relevant in football Clinton was President. Maybe we need to drop down a division. I love YSU and it hurts to say what I said but it’s true. We have lived of the past and that was like 25 years ago. We have no identity in athletics in our community, the state of Ohio, or on the national college sports scene. We had our chance and let it slip through our fingers. Other teams we beat have parlayed it to get to D1 in football or moved or changed conferences like Loyola and Butler. Till we find a better fit in football geographically or get into a conference where we compete in all sports we will have this fractured identity of a sports program. If you think it’s working it not.
Penguin Nick:
I agree with YSUGO 100%.
Kandrase:
--- Quote from: YSUGO on April 01, 2018, 09:04:43 AM ---I laugh at how we still act like YSU is way to good to be a MAC member. News flash: The MAC is not going to break up. Playing D1 football is where it’s at and that is not ever changing. We won 4 championships in FCS and has gotten us nothing but another side of a stadium that sits nearly half empty and we are in a football conference that we have no rivalries and a basketball conference that is a bottom feeder in the eyes of the NCAA.
When are you football diehards gonna see that people don’t care that our conference is the SEC of FCS and the last time we we were truly relevant in football Clinton was President. Maybe we need to drop down a division. I love YSU and it hurts to say what I said but it’s true. We have lived of the past and that was like 25 years ago. We have no identity in athletics in our community, the state of Ohio, or on the national college sports scene. We had our chance and let it slip through our fingers. Other teams we beat have parlayed it to get to D1 in football or moved or changed conferences like Loyola and Butler. Till we find a better fit in football geographically or get into a conference where we compete in all sports we will have this fractured identity of a sports program. If you think it’s working it not.
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Don’t think anyone thinks we’re too good. We think it wouldn’t make sense financially. It would be nice to play those closer schools, but it would be unsustainable.
ytowngirl:
--- Quote from: Penguin Nick on April 01, 2018, 10:00:56 PM ---I agree with YSUGO 100%.
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Me too. Sorry but the community barely cares about YSU football anymore. It's not like the 90's/early 2000's. Something needs to change to get butts in the seats.
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